Le Trou (1960), directed by Jacques Becker, is a French prison break drama based on a novel by José Giovanni. Four prisoners share the same cell. They all face long sentences so they dig a tunnel and gain access to storerooms under the cell and then to the sewer system. It’s a simple but highly…
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Karel Zeman Triple Bill
Before the nightmarish taxidermy and Jungian symbolism of Jan Švankmajer and the irreverent surrealism of Terry Gilliam came Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator Karel Zeman. Over the course of thirty years, Zeman produced a series of accessible, witty and imaginative fantasies. Zeman had a preoccupation with the stories of Jules Verne and Rudolf…
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